man window of text to terminal

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:50, Tim Writer wrote:
> Lloyd D Budd <lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is there an easy way (ctrl-<n>) to have the displayed "window" of 'man'
> > to be dumped to the terminal.
> > 
> > eg.
> > $ man man
> > [ctrl+d] 
> > [ctrl+d]
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I'm not sure that I understand the question.  Does one of these do what you
> want?
> 
>     man -P cat man
>     man -P 'col -b' man

Hi Tim,

That works well thanks!

I am selfish.  Ideally, I only want the displayed piece of the man entry
present in the window... ie when I scroll up, I would peruse less info.

Cheers,
Lloyd

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